Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man wearing a graduation robe and mortarboard kicks his heels together in excitement. He holds a rolled-up diploma labeled "'68," and the gown is labeled "Electoral college...

From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Test designed by the Citizenship Education Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Consists of information about the United States government and constitution.

From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of Bill Farve holding a poll standing next to bulls pulling a wagon with logs. “Bill Farve” is handwritten on the bottom. NASA-MTO Photo released by Public Affairs Office. Mississippi Test Operations;...

From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of an old man with a pipe in his mouth holding a young child while standing in front of the Blue Ribbon School. According to the caption in the book A Boy in Rural Mississippi, “The Blue Ribbon School, in...

From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of Bud Frierson wearing overalls and holding a poll standing next to bulls pulling a wagon with logs. “Bud Frierson” is handwritten on the bottom. NASA-MTO Photo released by Public Affairs Office....

From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a charcoal kiln burned at Gainesville in 1912. Charcoal was shipped to New Orleans by schooner to a wood yard by Oscar Dean. Two men holding shovels standing in front of a kiln. Photograph can be...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A map of the United States is filled in with the grid lines of a graph (or chart) and is labeled "College entrance test scores." The graph line runs from West Coast to East...

Photograph of freshmen students studying the Miss Southern Handbook. The caption reads, "Nail biting, humming, or cheating won't help. Freshmen girls must know the first verse of the Alma Mater for the Miss Southern Handbook test or else..." This...

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Composition book of Freedom School student Gwendolyn Merritt. Contains the resolutions of the Priest Creek Precinct meeting as well as a brief essay on the Freedom Movement and the Black...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. The scene is an artist's studio. A painting of the U.S. Capitol dome is on the easel and is labeled, "The Capitol scene." The drape is hanging from one edge of the painting. In the...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man wears a drum strapped to his chest that is labeled, "N.O. mayoral campaign,"and he is beating on it with two drumsticks as he marches. A second man beating a drum that is...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...

From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the Jordan River Lumber Co.’s Sawmill in Kiln, Miss. Handwritten on photograph is written the following: “This is just the old mill. It has been burned down and a much nicer mill built. This is a...

Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 23, 1964. Discusses voter registration canvassing activities, other aspects of his work in and around Clarksdale, Mississippi, as well as...

From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of three men standing next to a team of bulls pulling a wagon with logs. Two boys are sitting on the bulls. NASA-MTO Photo released by Public Affairs Office. Mississippi Test Operations; George C....